Bianca Eze

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Artist statement

I've always had a passion for art. My interest in creating began long before I understood what it meant to be an artist. In third grade, I made a papier-mâché ocelot, a medium-sized wild cat native to the Americas. In fifth grade, I drew Mickey and Minnie Valentine’s Day cards for my entire class. As I grew older, art became more than something I enjoyed doing. It became a way for me to explore ideas, communicate emotions, and make sense of the world around me. My background in medicine and the sciences has become an important part of how I create. I am interested in the human body, health, identity, popular culture, and lived experience, particularly the ways people are seen, understood, represented, and sometimes overlooked. My work often begins with a concept or question that I want to explore, and I allow the materials, imagery, and scale of the work to develop around that idea. I work across mixed media, sculpture, painting, drawing, and assemblage, often incorporating unconventional or repurposed materials. I have always enjoyed finding ways to make a material represent more than what it is. I also expand my work as necessary so that it better represents the concept I am focusing on. For me, the material, the process, and the subject are all part of the story. My work does not exist within one subject or medium. Some pieces are directly connected to medicine and the human body, while others explore memory, popular culture, identity, relationships, or personal...

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